Some More Politics
2023 Reflection: I did a good little bit of editing on this particular entry, first published in February, 2021. I believe that my own personal life has paralleled the course of the world. My experience has prefigured, so some degree, what was to happen to society as a whole. In the 1990s, as I experienced the civil rights situation at Nortel, and attempted an awkward win-win response to it, I began to feel closed in, cut off, manipulated, marginalized. I believe that millions of others had the same thoughts as I. Uncountable throngs of the population have felt as though their freedom, their humanity, was being stripped away slowly, almost imperceptibly. As normal humans, we all defaulted to the classic "Just ignore it. It will go away." Except this time it didn't go away. My experience with the U of M Regents, and then with Nortel, prefigured a generalized problem in society, where good people making good decisions, would be at best ignored, at worst mocked and marginal